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    Advice on Planned Event Flight

    That's some great advice Mr. Taco Wrangler. Perhaps preparing a PDF doc they can send out to the participants this week would be the best way to do this. I have a pretty good amount of flying experience and can handle the craft pretty well, so I'm not too concerned with the part (provided the...
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    Advice on Planned Event Flight

    Hey Guys! So I've gained a pretty good following on Instagram ( Guide to The West Coast (@imgrado.photography) • Instagram photos and videos ) here in the San Diego area and the organizers of the Outrigger Kayak Race reached out to me to ask if I would be interested in doing some photography...
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    FAA Expands Online Small Unmanned Aircraft Registration

    I hadn't seen that second link before, that's good news. Thanks for sharing!
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    FAA Expands Online Small Unmanned Aircraft Registration

    Then the definition of commercial work needs to be changed. Because right now, I'm not even allowed to sell photos I take above my back yard. [EXPLITIVE REMOVED] You have your opinion, and I have mine.
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    FAA Expands Online Small Unmanned Aircraft Registration

    It's a tech business. Not a restaurant. It costs me $500 to start my business. That's dirt cheap to me. Especially when you have everything you need to make money with it in place, and you just need a piece of paper from the government. Not sure how anyone is ok with the costs right now. Absurd.
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    FAA Expands Online Small Unmanned Aircraft Registration

    I just don't get it. That Sport Pilot license is like $4,000 isn't it? It would take so long to make that back with a business, especially once you're already down $1600 from the drone purchase. These guys have really mashandled the entire drone thing (I'm sure that's been said 1,000 times).
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    FAA Expands Online Small Unmanned Aircraft Registration

    So for anyone that's done the 333, I have a few questions if you don't mind: 1. How long does it take to fill everything out and to get a reply? 2. Do you still need some form of a pilot license to fly commercially? 3. Have any of you been denied?
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    Finished my first Video! (San Diego's La Jolla Cove)

    I put this together with Adobe Premiere. Was the first time doing anything like that but it worked out pretty well
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    Finished my first Video! (San Diego's La Jolla Cove)

    Believe it or not, I used the Phantom and just set it up on a closest steady surface!
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